Photography hot takes!

[tcolgate]

Kentmere 400 is actually HP5, but with an inferior AH layer. I feel much better getting that off my chest. Thank you...

You mean the real reason they won't sell us kentmere in sheets is because they already are! and they just like to sit in the pub sniggering about it in a corner!!

 

[thinkbrown]

Kentmere 400 is actually HP5, but with an inferior AH layer.

It's close enough that I don't buy much hp5 anymore....

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Kodachrome is dead, and any talk of reviving it is masturbation to necro-porn.

How do ya really feel Scott?

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

How do ya really feel Scott?

If you REALLY want the Kodachrome look, along with all the challenges (you have to nail the exposure), shoot Ektar 100. It really gives the Kodachrome look, without the vices (can get it processed anywhere, relatively inexpensively, not nearly as environmentally messy, etc).

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Thanks but I'm doing the B&W thing right now.

I wasn't wishing for the impossible I just knew that would wake somebody up. I do miss it though. Had a lot of fun with it.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Thanks but I'm doing the B&W thing right now.

I wasn't wishing for the impossible I just knew that would wake somebody up. I do miss it though. Had a lot of fun with it.

Oh, I know- it was a fantastic film. It's just not viable any more for a whole host of reasons and it does irritate me when I see people wishing for its return but unwilling to pay the price it would take to bring it back. No, you're not going to get $10/roll Kodachrome and you're not going to get it processed with 24 hour turnaround for $5/roll. Multiply those numbers by a factor of 6 and you might be in the ballpark. I'd love to have Polaroid Type 55 back (and in many ways that would be more feasible) but the probable cost for reviving it would be well beyond what I'd be willing to pay.

 

[Klaus Mähring]

Grain is better than pixel.

 

[Don_ih]

Beef is better than grain!